15 Bible Verses about Imagination, Evil Scheming

Wherefore having known God, not as God did they honour or return thanks; but were rendered vain in their conversations, and their heart without understanding was darkened.

In the pride of the unjust he will burn the poor: they shall be taken in the devices that they purposed. For the unjust boasted upon the desire of his soul, and he blessed him plundering, despising Jehovah. The unjust according to the height of his anger, will not seek: God is not in all his thoughts.

But their minds were hardened: for until this day the same veil upon the reading of the old covenant. remains not uncovered;for in Christ it is left unemployed.

Therefore this I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no more walk as also the rest of the nations, in the vanity of their mind, Being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God by ignorance being in them, by the hardness of their heart;

All things truly pure to the pure: and to the defiled and unbelieving nothing pure; but also their mind and consciousness are defiled.

Thine eyes shall see strange women, and thy heart shall speak perverseness.

In whom the God of this world blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that the enlightening of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, does not enlighten them.

And ye being dead in faults and in sins; In which when ye walked according to the life of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, of the spirit now energetic in the sons of disobedience: Among whom also we then all occupied ourselves in the eager desire? of our flesh, doing the wills of the flesh and the thoughts; and were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest.

These six Jehovah hated, and seven an abomination of his soul: Eyes being lifted up; a tongue of falsehood, and hands shedding innocent blood, A heart fabricating purposes of iniquity; feet being quick to run to evil,

And Jehovah will say, Behold, the people one, and one lip to them all; and this they begin to do: and now it will not be restrained from them all which they shall imagine to do.

He will purpose vanity upon his bed; he will set himself upon a way not good; he will not reject evil

They will strengthen to themselves an evil word: they will recount to hide snares; they said, Who shall see them They will search out iniquities; they completed a search searched out: and a man drew near, and a deep heart.

Perverseness in his heart, fabricating evil in all time, he will send forth strifes.

Deceit in the heart of those devising evil: and joy to those counseling peace.

Shall they not go astray, seeking evil? and mercy, and truth to those seeking good.